Re: Looking for a co-maintainer for Sys::SigAction
Hi Lincoln, I've come to the conclusion that I don't have the interest, to continue to maintain Sys::SigAction. There are several things you could do. There are 19 distributions that use Sys::SigAction – you could contact the authors of those to see if any of those would like to adopt it, or help. You could give co-maint to the special pseudo-user NEEDHELP. When you do that, MetaCPAN will display a banner when people look at the module. See, for example https://metacpan.org/pod/X11::Muralis Similarly, you could give co-maint to ADOPTME, or even transfer first-come to it. This results in a slightly different message: https://metacpan.org/pod/WebAPI::DBIC If you don’t plan to ever do any more work on the module, ADOPTME is more appropriate. It’s a more established mechanism, and there are people who look for modules to adopt. Think up a bunch of ways to improve the distribution, and add them all as RT tickets. Then write a blog post saying you’re looking for someone to adopt it, and that there’s a ready-made list of things to work on. Would be good for the test coverage to be high before doing this. If it isn’t, add that to the list ;-) Cheers, Neil
Looking for a co-maintainer for Sys::SigAction
Hello Perl Module authors, and Pause Admins, I've come to the conclusion that I don't have the interest, to continue to maintain Sys::SigAction. (https://metacpan.org/pod/Sys::SigAction). SigAction as been incredibly stable for years, with the exception of of the fact that perl 5.31.6 and beyond broke it for the cygwin platform. The tests ran fine on cygwin before that release. I would probably try to identify the test that fails on cygwin, and then mask it off with a warning of what is not working on that platform. The are three open issues. There was one pull request that I received, that I belatedly merged into my github repository for sys::sigaction. This is https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=123637. I will produce a new release that includes this patch. And then close this issue. There are other two issues. I am no longer programming in perl (though I still love the language). I wish to give this module to someone more interested in maintaining it. This module has been included in Debian for years now. And while I have no idea how widely it is used, there are 6 people following it. It would be nice if someone would in interested in at least contributing to it's maintenance. I'd be happy to work with that person to transfer knowledge and review updates. Any takers? Lincoln
